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  • Changes to Buckeye Buy Catalogs 

    Richard Hunter | December 1, 2023
    During the week of December 11, enhancements will be made to select Buckeye Buy items that will allow the commodity code to automatically populate on purchase requisitions. During the transition, requests to add or update affected items will be held until maintenance is complete. The estimated maintenance complete date is Friday, December 15. For UNIV purchases only - If the c...

  • Don't Let Phishing Spoil Your Day

    Alison Landefeld | November 30, 2023
    In today's digital world, phishing scams are a constantly growing threat to individuals and organizations like Ohio State. These deceptive schemes often involve malicious actors crafting emails or text messages that mimic legitimate communications from reputable sources, like banks, credit card companies, or even the university, to steal information. Phishing scams can also lead victims to downlo...

  • Pronouns to Sync Across Carmen and Zoom

    Randi Honkonen | November 29, 2023
    Beginning this spring, students, staff and faculty may notice a change in their displayed pronouns in CarmenCanvas and CarmenZoom. These two tools will begin pulling pronoun information from my.osu.edu, the Ohio State app, Buckeye Link (for students), and Workday (for faculty and staff). Any pronouns that had been designated natively in Carmen and Zoom will remain if you have not selected pronoun...
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  • Retiree Group Term Life Insurance Payment Options

    Richard Hunter | November 20, 2023
    Retiree Group Term Life Insurance coverage has a new billing process for the first billing quarter of 2024. The new process will begin Friday, Dec. 1, and provides a more streamlined process with additional payment options. As a reminder, retirees elect coverage in Workday following a September implementation.Ohio State’s Accounts Receivable now sends invoices and collects&nbs...

  • Email Management: Archiving Messages to Optimize Storage

    Beth Varcho | November 17, 2023
    As Ohio State works to decrease its email storage footprint, OTDI is publishing a series of articles that will help you take steps to reduce the number of emails you are storing. The first article covered simple ways to clear out emails that do not need to be saved. This article explains archiving and our next post will cover adding retention tags to folders or messages. The key to eff...

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